Last Hope is a dark Magical Girls game within which you play as teenage or young adult characters chosen to fight corruption in a dream-like version of the world, while also balancing their mundane life, their struggles, and their relationships.
*Version française and text-only version here. You will be able to choose your favorite language after the campaign/Vous pourrez choisir votre langue de préférence après la campagne.*
Last Hope is a dark Magical Girls tabletop roleplaying game, within which you play as teenage or young adult characters chosen by Unmei - a small creature offering to trade a wish for magical powers - to fight evil corruption in an alternate version of the world, while also balancing their mundane life, their struggles, and their relationships. While Unmei's intentions seem noble, all Sentinels eventually feel that perhaps these powers came with sinister price...
The stories depicted in Last Hope occur in the fictional city of Higanbana, a place full of mysteries and strange occurrences. Named after the spider lilies growing in abundance in the area, the city is located on a small island at the confluence of two rivers - or maybe was it near the coast? It’s only connected to the mainland by the Inunaki bridge, which is, quite curiously, used to arrive, but never to leave. Higanbana exists in a self-contained distortion; it can appear in any place, at any time, and no matter how thoroughly you look, you may never encounter it.
Illustration of Belle, an Angel Heart, by Heidi Paña
The Dreamscape In your Sentinel form, you will wander the Dreamscape: a world created from the collective unconscious of Higanbana's residents. This is where you will encounter the main antagonists of Last Hope: Shadows.
Born from suppressed human emotions, usually negative ones, they are mindless creatures seeking to corrupt and feed on anything they can find. If unleashed into the real world, they would kill everyone they encounter, without any regards. Sentinels are created to contain these creatures and ensure that they remain inside the Dreamscape, or stay in numbers that pose no threat to people’s hearts.
Corruption & Determination In exchange for your powerful gift, your soul might become corrupted. The more you use your powers, the more your soul weakens. If you gain too much Corruption, you might become a Shadow yourself!
Determination is the opposite of Corruption, and you can gain some through interacting with your friends and doing activities you enjoy. It can be used to cleanse Corruption, regain Vitality, or accomplish other actions that you may not normally be able to! Using your Determination can even delay your inevitable demise...
The Last Hope rulebook includes everything you need to play!
You will get:
A 250+ pages, 7x10 full-color hardcover rulebook!
A full description of Higanbana, including all of the hot spots, rumors, strange phenomena, and more!
A Corruption system that directly affects your character's health and behavior, which may lead to tragic scenes of sacrifice and heartbreak.
Quick to learn and easy to play (most rules are on the Character Sheet). All additional rules come in handy, printable helper sheets!
10 "Hearts" to choose from, all of which influences your character's personality.
System for relationships with characters populating the world, allowing you to nurture special interests with others and gain perks from interacting with people.
Simple but deep tactical combat that encourages teamwork.
Special items to improve your character.
Alternate modes of play that includes tragic battle royale, playing as working adults or idols, a "Story" Mode with easier/less combat, etc.
Playable in solo! Become the chosen one and try to save the city alone, or create a small squad of characters that you control!
A Shadow Codex containing pre-made Tarnished, Wretched, and Anathemas.
A base scenario by Lex Kim Bobrow (Titanomachy RPG) to help you learn the game!
You can see some examples for the book pages below!
While we modified Caltrop Core to fit this specific game, we still tried to keep it as simple as possible to pick up!
The rules can be summarized by the following: Whenever you want to accomplish an action or use a power, roll a number of D4s equal to the appropriate stat, keep the highest and compare it to the table, or count how many 4s you rolled. If you roll four fours, something super cool happens OR you deal more damage (your friends can even help you by rolling their own dice and adding their fours to your result)!
There are two phases to Last Hope's gameplay: Day and Night.
DURING THE DAY YOU...
Go to school.
Speak with other students or observe strangers to find particularly troubled individuals.
Participate in special activities with your friends and create powerful bonds.
DURING THE NIGHT YOU...
Patrol The Dreamscape to destroy Shadows.
Collapse Cognition Mazes using the knowledge you gathered during the day.
When your character awakens as a Sentinel, their powers come from within their heart and soul. Their upbringing and their personality determine how The Gift affects them. Choose yours during character creation, answer the Last Hope personality test as your character, or let your Narrator decide!
The Heart you get gives you the basic powers you will use, which you can later upgrade and expand with completely new ones!
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We're super excited to collaborate with Aetas Draconis for this edition of Pocketopia! They make a beautiful luxury card deck inspired by ancient dragons, elemental forces, and the art of cartomancy. With the free printed map on pre-launch subscribers AND these two stickers, you have THREE freebies when supporting us!
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The latest fulfillment dates are currently planned for Q4 2027, but this is subject to change. Since the campaign includes funding for art, print, writing, and more, we (and all artists participating) need time to complete every steps of the project before sending it to you! Those with access to the Development files will receive regular updates on progress.
Digital fulfillment will be handled through DriveThruRPG or Itch.Io, depending on your preference.
Wendigo Workshop is a TTRPG business owned by queer, Indigenous, and neurodivergent people which develops, edits, and publish tabletop roleplaying games. We are a team of three based in Québec, Canada, with backgrounds book editing, creative writing, translation, video games, and classical art. As a business, we want to support our community, bring people together, and create projects that we are proud to share with the world! Want to know more about the why's of the name? Check out this foreword from our Indigenous owner!
We have successfully funded and delivered two crowdfunding projects :
Arkelon Chronicles (29k on Kickstarter with the help of 268 backers) (demo here)
Anomaly Hunters (1k on Crowdfundr with the help of 34 backers). Also featured (and unlocked) as a stretch goal in Breathless, Frightmare Edition by RP Deshaies, published by Mythworks. (demo here)
The Owners Jo Sévigny - Layout, Design, Writing Hello! I'm Jo, and I'm a writer, book editor, artist, and TTRPG designer. I am a former video game tester, whose work included Borderlands 3, Risk of Rain 2, and multiple Skylanders titles. In the TTRPG space, I'm the creator of Arkelon Chronicles, and the main designer for most of our games. I've also written content for Lone Colossus Games (Injuries and Vile Deeds, and Tome of Intangible Treasures 1 & 2), translated to French FariRPGs’ Boundless, and more. I'm very passionate about the Magical Girls genre, our personality test says I'm an Angel Heart (apparently), and dinosaurs are really cool.
Maïthé Roussel - Design, Research, Art Bonjour! ♡ I'm Maïthé (you get bonus points if you pronounce it right) and I am a Porcelain Heart with a passion for Magical Girl since forever .✦ ݁˖ I started listing all the stuff I did on this project, but it was taking too much space... I got in trouble. In short, I am the lead researcher and one of the creator of this universe. I also worked on some artwork for the game since I am classically trained in art ฅ^>⩊<^ ฅ I previously worked on Arkelon Chronicles & Anomaly Hunter ❀
Jean-Christophe Chamberland - Design and Tests Hey! I’m JC (proud member of the Innue Essipit First Nation Reserve), and I have been part of Wendigo Workshop since its beginnings! While my contribution on Last Hope isn’t as major as my work on Arkelon Chronicles (our biggest project yet), but I have been lending a hand as a proofreader, tester, and designer. I'm a video game tester, and I dabble in coding - if you haven't tried it yet, go check the interactive quiz I made to promote Last Hope! I'm always happy and eager to speak with the community, and listen to feedback about our games!
Guests Writer(s) Lex Kim Bobrow - Creator of Caltrop Core Lex Kim Bobrow (they/them), known as TitanomachyRPG, is a mixed-Asian, non-binary tabletop roleplaying game designer and writer. They are the creator of Caltrop Core, the base system used for the Last Hope! Lex has written for Evil Hat (Girl by Moonlight, Death Match Island), and has been on several panels about fostering creative communities.
The city of Higanbana is a bustling metropolis of diversity, modern architecture, technology, and strange occurrences. We have picked a diverse group of artists to represent this beautiful place, as well as to populate the book with awesome characters and creepy monsters.
Most character art will be made by Heidi Paña, a Filipina artist living in Canada with a passion for the Magical Girls genre. She always brings new and different ideas to her pieces, and we are extremely excited to have her back. Her work includes character art for Arkelon Chronicles.
James Fletcher is a Canadian artist with deep knowledge of the Magical Girls genre, and a passion for weird monsters and folklore. He knows how to convey emotions and create unique designs using abstract concepts. We are very excited to have him back working with us. His work includes art for the Keys of Izjeria card game and illustrations for Arkelon Chronicles.
Virginie Juteau is a Canadian artist with an extremely versatile portfolio. She designed the mascot, Unmei. Her work includes concept art for Ubisoft, art for the Keys of Izjeria card game, and illustrations for Arkelon Chronicles.
Helia Santowill join us to make a beautiful, thematic character sheet, in addition to the logos for the Hearts (game classes). They worked on amazing projects such as Underisle and Overisles from Hatchling Games, and we are so excited to have them with us.
Saga Mackenziewill be working on Higanbana Map! She is a Queer Transgender illustrator and tabletop game designer operating out of the Highlands of Scotland, with a current focus on fantasy cartography, adventure writing and character illustration! Her work includes Night City map for R Talsorian Games's Cyberpunk Red TTRPG, and maps for Uncaged Anthology: Goddesses.
Vic Corbellais a Spanish artist with a quite impressive portfolio. His previous experience include Square Enix, Ubisoft, Gameloft, NetherRealm, and Games Workshop. They're super excited to join the project to make amazing splash illustrations.
The logo was made byJennifer Ramírez (Jenihara), a Mexican illustrator and designer recognized for her cute, expressive, and highly stylized aesthetic inspired by kawaii culture, VTubers, and anime visuals. Her work specializes in creating unique branding, mascots, logos, overlays, and graphic artwork filled with personality and charm. She has collaborated with streamers, content creators, and online personalities worldwide, bringing colorful and memorable identities to life through her distinctive artistic style.
Starting at 37.30! An overview of Last Hope by French channel IND100 Podcast. They also speak about Triangle Agency, if you're interested in watching the full video!
You can also read along this Q&A with Dan Davenport, where we talk a bit about the game, the lore, and more!
Check out this older interview with Mildra the Monk, back when Last Hope was just a little game jam project.
No AI of any sort is used in our projects, and we never plan to do so. All of our games are illustrated, written, and designed by real humans.
GenAI has a massive environmental impact, it is only able to vomit soulless, stolen work, and is used as a tool for fascist propaganda. We are firmly against the use of this technology in the creative community.
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